Abstract

ALVES JUNIOR, Sergio de Melo et al. Oral hygiene prescription in medical records of patients in a city of Amazonia. Rev. Assoc. Paul. Cir. Dent. [online]. 2014, vol.68, n.4, pp. 302-306. ISSN 0004-5276.

The purpose of this paper was to report prescribed oral care in the medical records of hospitalized patients from Pronto Socorro Municipal Mario Pinotti Hospital. The methodology consists of evaluating the medical records of patients who were hospitalized for at least 24 hours, assuming that every patient should have received oral hygiene regardless of their physical and motor conditions. According to the 415 analyzed records, oral hygiene was prescribed for just 28.19% of patients (117). Regarding hospitalization, the majority of patients (52.29% - 217) had a period of hospitalization between over 2 days and 7 days and most of them were male (56,63% - 235). The most frequent reasons for hospitalization were: bacterial diseases 4.34% (18 patients), pneumonia / flu symptoms 7.23% (30 patients), appendectomy 11.33 % (47 patients); trauma 16.14% (67 patients); stroke 18.55% (77 patients) and others reasons represented 42,41% (176 patients). Data suggests that there is not much importance placed on oral care in hospitals for hospitalized patients, since most of them received no required care for oral hygiene.

Keywords : oral hygiene; dentistry; dental service; hospital.